Description du projet
Créer des métamatériaux pour une Europe plus calme
Quel est ce bruit? S’il est fort, il peut engendrer un stress physique et psychologique. Les bruits intenses réduisent également la productivité et compliquent la concentration. Les solutions actuelles contre le bruit et les vibrations nécessitent toutefois trop de masse ou de volume pour pouvoir être adaptées dans la pratique, en particulier pour les basses fréquences. Les métamatériaux (MM) ont démontré leur immense potentiel dans le développement de solutions compactes à faible masse, dotées d’excellentes caractéristiques anti-bruit et anti-vibrations. Dans ce contexte, le projet METAVISION, financé par l’UE, dispensera une formation sur ces solutions innovantes aux doctorants. Son objectif consiste à développer un nouveau design et de nouvelles méthodes d’analyse afin d’améliorer la performance et l’applicabilité des MM et d’en faire des solutions fabricables à grande échelle et exploitables à des fins industrielles contre le bruit et les vibrations.
Objectif
METAVISION aims to reconcile two conflicting trends. On the one hand, people become increasingly aware of the negative health impact of excessive noise and vibration exposure. On the other hand, every kilogram of mass removed from the logistics chain has a direct economic and ecological benefit. Current noise and vibration solutions still require too much mass or volume to be practically feasible, particularly for lower frequencies. There is thus a strong need for low mass, compact material solutions with excellent noise and vibration characteristics, for which recently emerged so-called metamaterials (MM) have shown immense potential. The goal of METAVISION is to provide high-quality training on these innovative solutions to a new generation of high achieving doctoral candidates and to provide them with the scientific and transferable skills needed for successful careers in this key area which brings together scientific, technological, and societal challenges. This will be achieved by combining a research programme which aims to (i) develop novel design and analysis methods in view of broadening the performance and applicability of MM, (ii) revolutionize the manufacturing of MM towards large-scale and versatile solutions and (iii) advance academically proven MM concepts towards industrially relevant applications, with an interdisciplinary training programme composed of scientific and transferable skill courses and intersectoral and international secondments. Both programmes are brought together in unique industrial demonstrator projects.
METAVISION gathers universities, research institutes and small- and large-scale industry from manufacturing, construction, transportation, and machine design sectors with the relevant expertise to create the coordinated research environment needed to bring MM from academic concepts to large-scale manufacturable and industrially applicable noise and vibration solutions, paving the way towards a quieter and greener Europe.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinateur
3000 Leuven
Belgique